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Assessing the Long-Term Performance of Cross-Sectoral Strategies for National Infrastructure

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Jim Hall, Professor Thomas CurtisORCiD, Emeritus Professor Cliff JonesORCiD, Professor Chris Kilsby, Alex Leathard, Roberta Velykiene

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Abstract

National infrastructure systems (energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste) provide essential services to society. Although for the most part these systems developed in a piecemeal way, they are now an integrated and highly interdependent "system of systems." However, understanding the long-term performance trajectory of national infrastructure has proved to be very difficult because of the complexity of these systems (in physical and institutional terms) and because there is little tradition of thinking cross-sectorally about infrastructure system performance. Here, a methodology is proposed for analyzing national multisectoral infrastructure systems performance in the context of uncertain futures, incorporating interdependencies in demand across sectors. Three contrasting strategies are considered for infrastructure provision (capacity intensive, capacity constrained, and decentralized) and multiattribute performance metrics are analyzed in the context of low, medium, and high demographic and economic growth scenarios. The approach is illustrated using Great Britain and provides the basis for the development and testing of long-term strategies for national infrastructure provision. It is especially applicable to mature industrial economics with a large stock of existing infrastructure and challenges of future infrastructure provision. (C) 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Author(s): Hall JW, Henriques JJ, Hickford AJ, Nicholls RJ, Baruah P, Birkin M, Chaudry M, Curtis TP, Eyre N, Jones C, Kilsby CG, Leathard A, Lorenz A, Malleson N, McLeod F, Powrie W, Preston J, Rai N, Street R, Stringfellow A, Thoung C, Tyler P, Velykiene R, Watson G, Watson JW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Year: 2014

Volume: 20

Issue: 3

Print publication date: 01/09/2014

Online publication date: 20/02/2014

Acceptance date: 29/10/2013

ISSN (print): 1076-0342

ISSN (electronic): 1943-555X

Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000196

DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000196

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